19-08-2013, 03:51 AM
Steve Minnerly Wrote:Hero worship is not bad albert. Hell thats the whole basis behind joseph campbell. And when you read campbell you understand hero worship is the basis of human culture and existance.
Its the oldest story.
I would distinguish between descriptive and prescriptive when it comes to culture. There needs to be a dialectical process. Myth needs constantly to be subjected to criticism. That is not to deny its inexorable presence and function. It just cannot go unanalyzed. When it does, it may have dangerous consequences, particularly in the political realm. I need not point out where the cult of the leader took Europe in the 1920s and 1930s.